All that’s missing is a big stamp across the front saying “Promises Kept.”

Advertisement - story continues below

The budget proposal puts the safety and security of the American people from outside threats as its first priority, according to Breitbart. It makes bold, sweeping strokes for military, border security and veteran support while slashing liberal-favored social support programs and foreign aid.

“To keep Americans safe, we have made the tough choices that have been put off for too long,” Trump said in a statement to Congress that accompanied the budget.

Tough choices indeed. The new budget will slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protection Agency and Public Broadcasting. Do these programs do good things? Undoubtedly. Are they cost-effective? Absolutely not. Do they supersede our national security? Oh, please.

Advertisement - story continues below

Here we come to the best part of Trump’s budget: It’s reality-based. No pie-in-the-sky. No something-for-nothing. If you want to beef up the military and border security, something else has to go. Trump’s economic conservatism is the exact opposite of the liberal semi-socialism we’ve suffered for far too long.

At the end of former President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, we’re $20 trillion in debt. Take a minute to chew on that. President Trump is absolutely determined to keep his promises to America without adding to that. That means hard choices.

Democrats and Republicans alike are already bellowing about their special-interest constituencies, from agriculture to environmental restoration.

“The left is not going to let him decrease non-defense discretionary (spending) to the extent that he wants to,” GOP Rep. Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho told reporters on Thursday, according to The Washington Post. “We’re going to have to find a different way to balance the budget.”

We’ll be interested to see how that goes, since tax-and-spend lawmakers have been so (ahem) successful with that in the past.

Advertisement - story continues below

“The message we’re sending to the Hill is, we want more money for the things the president talked about, defense being the top one, national security,” said White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. “And we don’t want to add to the budget deficit. If Congress has another way to do that, we’re happy to talk to them about it.”

Please share on Facebook and Twitter to show that our new administration is facing budget realities head-on.

What do you think about President Trump's budget priorities? Scroll down to comment below.